COLLINS BIG CAT : SAM THE BIG BAD CAT PB – SHEILA BIRD-TRISH PHILLIPS-CLIFF MOON-COLLINS BIG CAT

Sam the big, bad cat isn’t feeling well. Tom wants to take him to the vet. Sam doesn’t want to go, and finds a variety of hiding places to escape. Tom pursues him, getting more and more bedraggled in the process. Finally Tom goes to bed, leaving Sam – who is feeling much better – to enjoy a snack. Yellow level/ Band 3 books offer early readers varied sentence structure and natural language. Text type – A story with a familiar setting. A storyboard on pages 14 and 15 reveals all of Sam’s hiding places in a pictorial summary of the day, providing the opportunity to recap the story. Curriculum links – Citizenship: animals and us. This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery. This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.